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Shout out to Sageous for his writings on the fundamentals of lucid dreaming, self-awareness and memory. This morning, I woke up and stayed awake for 50 minutes to meditate. The key thing about the meditation was to keep my mind - my awareness - HERE AND NOW. My mind continuously got caught up in thoughts that were in the present moment. Every time that happened, I shifted my awareness back to present events like my breathing, my hearing and my sense of touch.

This leads me to believe that SSILD so effective because it forces the practitioner out of his or her own head and into the present. The mind is quieted from thoughts that have absolutely nothing to do with the current moment of just sitting, hearing, feeling and breathing.

I went back to sleep at 6:50 am and still meditated to keep my awareness in the present moment. Some time went by and I saw a giant image that looked like a webpage in front of me. I focused a bit on the image and I felt my body go numb. Then, a false awakening happened and my reality check was looking at my bedroom window. I noticed that there was a towel being used as a curtain so I knew for a fact I was dreaming. I got out of my bed and began to explore.

I went out into my hallway and looked at the entrance to the kitchen which was pitch-black instead of usually illuminated, further confirming that this was lucid. I woke up and repeated the relax-meditate steps mentioned earlier to get back into another lucid dream. That ended too and I looked at my alarm clock to find it was only 7:10 am.